Word: shapely
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Meeting Place. Several miles from the compound was the meeting place of the Big Three. There, on the castle grounds the Russians had planted a courtyard with red flowers in the shape of a huge red star, set against a background of smooth, carefully mowed lawn. Inside was a dark-paneled main room, furnished with a crimson carpet overlaid with a red and purple Oriental rug, a 12-ft. circular table and 15 chairs, desks for secretaries and stenographers. From the room, hallways led to private suites. Off the main room was also the main dining room, where Baptist Harry...
...Shape They...
Sirs: Just a few pertinent comments on your article [TIME, June 18] on "The Shape We're In." The composite figure shown as a pictorialization of how the average American girl looks with her clothes off is, I regret to say, too, too, true. . . . The daily press releases from home show that the average American shape, distaff, definitely lacks something...
England : kinda weatherbeaten lot, no shape, fair personality, style consciousness absolutely zero ; but something to be endured in the interim. Normandy: chubby, healthy-looking frails, but decidedly not the type the average G.I. associated with France...
...universities were in even worse shape. The once-handsome campus of the University of the Philippines was a shell-pocked wreck. Santo Tomás University, which had housed civilian war prisoners during the occupation, managed to reopen its law, education, commerce and liberal arts colleges, but most of its halls were filled with hospital beds. Luzon's small private colleges, which once had 22,000 students, reopened with only skeleton courses for their few thousand registrants...